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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mikoyan had more contacts with foreign civilians than any other Soviet leader (he visited the U.S. in 1936, returned with enthusiasm for frozen foods. Coca-Cola and Eskimo Pies), and was popular with British businessmen, who refer to him as "Mikky." He junketed with Khrushchev and Bulganin to Red China last September, but Aneurin Bevan, who met him in Moscow, noted that his influence seemed to be waning. His ministry was criticized for boosting the sales of vodka while the party was carrying on an anti-alcohol campaign. Recently his trade representative in Georgia was tried for "speculation and cheating...
...Quebeckers who knew about it were also disappointed. Father Lévesque, who has frequently clashed on social issues with Quebec's reactionary Premier Maurice Duplessis, is highly popular in the 1,000,000-member cooperative movement that he has helped to spread through Quebec parishes...
...helped him set ten middle-distance marks. * Everywhere, he managed to give local runners a quick course of expert coaching, lead them through exhausting calisthenics and still had strength enough to run the legs off the fastest trackmen around. Seldom has the U.S. State Department sponsored so popular an ambassador...
Rock Love (Fontane Sisters; Dot). An easy jump from the Fontanes' popular Hearts of Stone, but less comprehensible. Rock love is something a body has in the heart, like a steamship's giant gyrostabilizer, to keep from floundering on temptation or drifting with the storm...
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 9:--In contrast to, if not in rebellion against, the "sophisticated poetic tradition," English 195 is entitled "Folksong and Balladry." Blues and spirituals, badmen songs and sea chanteys--Assistant Professor Albert B. Friedman shows in Sever 14 the influence that all such popular expressions have had on formal poetry. This is the first year that the course has been open to undergraduates and the last that it will be available...